Pyxl101

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I edited my comment to replace "inherent interests" with "biological trends in interest differences". I'm not trying to make a comment about individuals, only about trends that we might see in the population at larg
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> The research community does not have a better explanation for the disparity than social bias That's not really true. There is a lot of research showing that men and women have different interests and make different life choices, a
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Please also consider the rates at which different population groups commit serious crimes, such as murder and rape. We are talking about prison populations after all - people convicted of minor drug offenses like possession are a small perc
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Elizabeth Holmes repeatedly lied to a wide variety of different people about the capabilities of her technology. It's fine to have an ambitious plan that might not work out. It's fine to have a dream so crazy you have no idea how
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I believe you are referring to a different case than this one. That Android decision was in July 2018: > In July 2018, the Commission fined Google €4.34 billion for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen the dom
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Here are a few key claims about what Google did, from the European commission press release: > Google's provision of online search advertising intermediation services to the most commercially important publishers took place via agre
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Can you elaborate? Why would a transform be needed only on mobile devices? Why wouldn't the OS handle whatever's needed to produce audio in a platform-agnostic way, especially on the web? Very interested to know more.
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Is there a non-paywall version? I can't read this article.
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Some states allow pharmacists to substitute generic drugs for name brand prescriptions. To my knowledge they don't need the doctor's permission, and can make the change on their own unless the doctor specifically requests the name
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These were interesting but some were surprisingly low amounts of money. I was hoping for some stories of people with 8 or 9 figure windfalls! My thinking is that it's probably a good idea not to change your lifestyle unless the windfal
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Sure. Why not? There are lots of companies in the world that sell proprietary software. Nothing wrong with that. A lot of great software in the world, from a user experience perspective, is proprietary. Think about the devices, computers, a
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Thanks for pointing that out. That is a clearer name for their proprietary license. On that note, the title of the article is misleading. Redis hasn't changed its open source license. Redis remains BSD-licensed. This article is about t
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Amazon would not pay less NYC tax than other businesses. The NYC tax breaks that Amazon was planning to take advantage of are open to every company that qualifies: https://www.nycedc.com/program/relocation-and-employmen
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I also use Siri all the time for voice dictation and it's pretty good. The only reason to actually type a message on an iPhone, instead of voice dictate, is if you're in a place where speaking will bother other people or violate y
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It always seemed very strange to me that it's legal for company-expensed credit card purchases to generate individual, personal rewards for the card holders. (And these awards aren't even taxed?) Something feels underhanded abou
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New York City wasn't going to give Amazon a special discount. The company qualified for existing incentive programs that are already available to everyone: the Relocation and Employment Assistance Program, and the Industrial & Comm
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I'm on a PC and the site was also behaving strangely for me. The site doesn't display a scroll bar, so I could not scroll down and read the article. It worked using a different browser.
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> Like if you deal drugs, you will also evade taxes. Not necessarily. You could choose to pay taxes on that income to the IRS. The IRS provides a way to report illegal income and pay taxes on it. https://www.irs.gov/publi
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On what basis are you claiming software engineers are not engineers? What constitutes being an "engineer"? For the record, the National Counsel of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, which is the US body that regulates engine
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I'm sorry to post off-topic but... I find this very hard to ignore: When did Medium gain these huge annoying banners that can't be dismissed at the top and bottom of the page? > Never miss a story from Conversations with Tyler
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What you're missing is the process by which new blocks are added onto an existing chain. Let's say that you take the "true" Bitcoin or ETC blockchain, if you want to think of it that way, and now multiple actors are prop
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> You could split off the ad selling wing from the rest of it for a start. Normally when businesses are split up, they are broken into multiple pieces that each have their own revenue and are viable standalone businesses. In this case, t
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Specifically, the energy that is sound will gradually dissipate into energy that is heat. Brownian motion happens on the microscopic level; we perceive it on the macroscopic level as temperature. Temperature is essentially the combined, ave
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Nicotine is a nootropic, that is, a drug that has a positive effect on the performance of cognitive tasks involving attention and memory, and may even boost IQ. Starting points for further research: "Nicotine as a cognitive enhancer.&q
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If you have ever paid with a credit card, then the store likely knows exactly who “Customer #12345” is. Stores are tracking purchases this way whether there’s a loyalty account or not. Discussion of this: https://www.creditcards.
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Citizens United does not allow unlimited (or any) payments to a campaign. Citizens United was about the rights of a corporation to spend money publishing its own speech. Political speech is expressly protected by the first amendment, and t
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When I hit turbulence, I just try to keep in mind that airplanes are extremely robust and can handle considerably more turbulence than a typical person might imagine. For example, see how much airplane wings can bend without breaking: http
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Amazon's denial also came from Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, who wrote: > @tim_cook is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too. They offered no proof, story kept changing, and showed no interest in our answers unless
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For a good example of how reporters can be mislead, or can mislead themselves by buying too heavily into a narrative, and not examining alternatives with enough scrutiny, read about the Killian Documents Controversy (about George W Bush&#x2
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> by falsely convincing them that an ad view on a screen is worth 1,000 times less than an ad view on printed paper What makes you believe that this hypothetical comparison is false? The problem with traditional advertising is that every

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